Welcome to God's explaining.

God's Plaining.

Contemplative Preachers, Contemporary Age.

Each week, join the Dominican friars as they consider all things Catholic.

Hello friends and welcome back to God's planning.

My name is Father Patrick Mary Brisco and I'm joined here today by Father Joseph

Anthony. You want to say hi to everyone?

Howdy, how's everything going? We're getting into with the later months of the year.

So how are things in Providence?

Are they getting cold yet or what's out there?

Yeah, we're kind of headed that way.

I am most grateful for wrapping up the semester.

You know, we've had our students here for the

the whole latter part of the semester.

Like a lot of colleges, we did a kind of two-week lockdown

but we came back and we finished strong

and I'm just so grateful to be able to be able to

to be able to celebrate our liturgies and to be able to talk with people and encourage

them has really been such a huge grace. So how did things, how did things kind of wrap? How are things wrapping up in Charlottesville?

I have to say at the beginning of this semester, the pessim in me was like oh we'll be here for two weeks and then get shut down.

No that doesn't sound like you. I know I know I know but like there was a part of me that we really expected but like major shout out big ups to the student body of U of the A they took it the precautions very seriously there was a little blip there where we had to kind of tighten some of the restrictions.

But we've gone through the entire, we've gone through the entire semester and everything's been really good and like you were finishing up strong and I think there's this kind of just even this error of gratitude that hey you know looking back on such a how we began with so much uncertainty that things really work themselves out. We've seen God move in beautiful ways in our ministry, the growth in the outreach and just really good things happen in some what was unknown, what was uncertain and less than ideal.

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